[ale] Debian sound part II

[Jay Loden]

Wow, thanks for the informative post!  It's a laptop, so It's not easy to 
check if the card is in the slot, but it's working under Windows.  I'm 
thinking it might be some kind of kernel problem.  I *may* get annoyed enough 
to just wipe the drive and install Sarge with 2.6.10 

-Jay

On Saturday 15 January 2005 7:03, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:32 -0500, Jay Loden wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 January 2005 10:27, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > Since 7 is usually set aside for the parallel port, try disabling the
> > > parallel port in your bios to see if things change.  If they do, but
> > > you need the parallel port, then you'll need to shuffle some irqs
> > > around me thinks.
> >
> > Parallel port is already disabled :(
> >
> > The interrupts listed in /proc/interrupts also appear to change.
> > As of right now, it says:
> >
> >   0:   49594130          XT-PIC  timer
> >   1:     127016          XT-PIC  i8042
> >   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >   6:     923698          XT-PIC  yenta, orinoco_cs
> >   8:          4          XT-PIC  rtc
> >   9:       7579          XT-PIC  acpi
> >  10:          5          XT-PIC  ohci_hcd, yenta
> >  12:     806177          XT-PIC  i8042
> >  14:      83435          XT-PIC  ide0
> >  15:        598          XT-PIC  ide1
> > NMI:          0
> > ERR:         41
>
> The second column here is a count of the number of interrupts.  So for
> instance ide1 is getting many more interrupts than ide0.  The NMI is for
> non-maskable interrupts (used for debugging) and ERR is interrupt errors
> of which you have had 41.  This sometimes occurs when an interrupt
> occurs, but the OS can't identify the device that generated the
> interrupt.
>
> > instead.  I've noticed that despite running alsaconf, et al, The install
> > still thinks I have no sound cards.  I'm getting really low on ideas, and
> > I'm tempted to do a reinstall right now, except that I'm really happy
> > with the state of everything else.  I've spent two days on this in IRC
> > and google trying to get help and so far it's been a dry hole.
>
> Are you sure the card is firmly inserted in the slot?  I've seen
> symptoms similar to this when a card has slipped up so as not to be
> making complete contact with the slot.
>
>
>
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